It’s Friday, and Tide fans mourn the loss of a legend…

Weather: Maybe a shower. Hot and humid today with a 20 percent chance of an afternoon shower, with highs in the middle 90s. A 10 percent chance of rain tonight with lows in the middle 70s. Slightly better rain chances on Saturday and Sunday, with highs again in the middle 90s.

More money. The Jefferson County Board of Education approved a revised salary schedule for the upcoming school year, which gives many support workers a pay raise of 50 cents per hour and also lengthens the number of years in which they get longevity increases. That’s on top of raises in pay and/or supplements for principals, coaches and child nutrition workers that are meant to keep staffers in those positions from leaving JefCoEd for better-paying jobs in neighboring districts. The hikes were approved Thursday morning.

Sports: The Snake is gone. Ken Stabler, the former quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide who went on to a long career in the National Football League, died Thursday after a battle with colon cancer. Stabler was a backup QB on the 1965 national championship team and a starter the next year, then went on to play 10 seasons for the Oakland Raiders and five more with other NFL teams. Stabler also served as a color commentator on NFL television broadcasts, and later in life as the color man on Tide radio alongside play-by-play announcer Eli Gold. Stabler was 69.